From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-02-19T18:49:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FXIrb 0.14 - a Win32 GUI wrapper around IRB

James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> wrote:
> 
> I confess I am not a frequent user of irb; I prefer to use vim and 
> execute code straight through the editor.  But I tend to do a great deal 
> of mundane work on Win2k using the cmd shell.  What features are missing 
> that you want to put into fxirb?
> 
> Or, put another way, what do find so painful about the cmd shell?

Clunky cut/paste is the main one, limited scrollback, occasional
weirdnesses (e.g. my  cmd.exe here at home has arrow key support inside
irb, but the one at work, which us *also* win2k, just sends weird escape
sequences). To be fair, I could be subconsciously expecting it to behave
in the familiar xterm way and annoyed that it doesn't - I've never made
very heavy use of it.

martin